Imperial Triumphant return with their 3rd full length release, a cinematic take on whatever genre this may be but I know it’s something great; Vile Luxury. It’s shockingly horrific, jazzy, exponential, aggressive and oddly intriguing to the point that you have to sit and do nothing else but digest exactly everything that Imperial Triumphant has done here. Blending melodies and terror of black metal and blending it with the unconventional sounds of technical death metal like Ulcerate, Artificial Brain and Gorguts, you get one seriously massive release. The dark jazzy elements added are just the tip of the iceberg. The listening experience of Vile Luxury is a hellish whirlwind of unstable melodies and unorthodox compositions. It’s divine.Continue Reading

The sound of New York’s Imperial Triumphant is all at once disorienting, terrifying, and wholly unique. The band deconstruct the elements that make up black and death metal and reassemble them into unconventional, outré shapes that boggle the mind and disturb the psyche. The band pull from not just the extreme metal spectrum, but other areas of music as well, whose elements are then incorporated in bizarre and exciting ways. One of these areas of music is obviously jazz. The band have been incorporating jazz into their works for quite some time, but is much more prominent in their forthcoming album, Vile Luxury (due out July 13 via Gilead Media/Throatruiner).

For this special piece, we thought it would be interesting to see what jazz artists or recordings influence Imperial Triumphant‘s sound and themselves as musicians. Check out what each band member had to say after the break.

Brooklyn avant-garde black metal outfit Imperial Triumphant have premiered their forthcoming EP, Inceste, at Metal Sucks. The EP will officially be released this Friday, April 15, via Redefining Darkness Records. Pre-orders can be obtained here. The record shows the band plummeting deeper and deeper into the frightening and abstract territories they flirted with on their previous full-length, Abyssal Gods. The record is unhinged, unstable and undoubtedly awe-inspiring. Check it out here.

New York avant-garde black metal outfit Imperial Triumphant have premiered a new track from their forthcoming EP, Inceste, at Decibel. The new mind-boggling tune is titled “Kaleidoscopic Orgies” and features an insane amount of sonic twist and turns. Guitars bend and writhe in serpentine fashions, dissonant melodies instill listeners with a sense of nausea, erratic drumming bashes skulls into dust and malevolent vocals instill fear in the hearts of the weak. Check out the evil and completely chaotic track here.

Inceste will be released on April 15 via Redefining Darkness. Pre-order here.

New York experimental black metal outfit Imperial Triumphant have announced the release of a new four-track EP release. The new EP will be titled Inceste and will be released on April 15 via Redefining Darkness Records. Like the band’s previous Abyssal Gods full-length, Inceste was mixed and mastered by Colin Marston at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves. The band had the following to say regarding the new release:

“Inceste is an interpretation of the works of French aristocrat Marquis de Sade. We wanted to make a record that was sordid, invasive, and child like at times. Extreme highs and lows are everywhere on this EP. The music always reflects the lyrics. Nothing on Inceste is stable. Everything instrument bends and twists and wrenches, forcing its way inside of you.”

The band have premiered the EP’s psychologically damned closing track “Breath of Innocence” at Stereogum.